21. Five pillars of Islam Qur’an The House of Islam Ummah Shahada Salah Zakah Sawm Hajj
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26. Rakahs Cycle of standing, bowing and prostrating with prayers. Finish by blessing fellow Muslims on left and right; greeting angels which record good and bad deeds.
Peace comes from submission to God and obeying his will S l m. islam - state of harmonu in which God created the world and state in which we should all live. Harmony only comes about when everything submits to the will of God All created as Musims. Therefore not converts but reverts. Islam natural way of life. Fulfil purpse Muslim - something in state of Islam. God made everything Muslim. Planets, mountians, minerals, trees, animalis etc. all Muslim. Saalam alekum may you come into greater peace and harmony with God ID Abd - servant of God
K 10 years older. Widow. Rich. Trader. M managed. She proposed. Very happy. 4 daughters, 2 sons - both died. Black stone - metiorite. Jibril brought from heaven.
“Read: In the name of thy Lord Who createth. “Createth man from a clot. “Read: And it is thy Lord the Most Bountiful “Who teacheth by the pen, “Teacheth man that which he knew not.”
Tradition records at great length the persecution and ill-treatment of Muhammad and his followers.[14] Sumayyah bint Khabbab, a slave of Abu Jahl and a prominent Meccan leader, is famous as the first martyr of Islam, having been killed with a spear by her master when she refused to give up her faith. Bilal, another Muslim slave, was tortured by Umayya ibn khalaf who placed a heavy rock on his chest to force his conversion.[62][63] Apart from insults, Muhammad was protected from physical harm as he belonged to the Banu Hashim clan.[64][65]
Abu Lahab uncle who suceeds Abu Talib as head of Banu Hashim clan. Enemy of M. withdraws protection. he application of Muhammad Mustafa, the Apostle of God, upon his return from Ta’if, to Mutim ibn Adiy, a non-Muslim, seeking his protection, raises once again, a most uncomfortable question, in a most pointed manner, on the attitude and conduct of the Muslims. Why didn’t the Apostle ask any of them to take him under his protection even though some of them were said to have been rich and influential, and some others were touted to have been the terror of the pagans?[10] Why is it that the Apostle sought the protection of a non-Muslim but didn’t condescend even to inform the Muslims that he wanted to reenter Makkah and was in need of protection? Or another question! Why didn’t the Muslims themselves go to the city gate and escort their Prophet to his home? Here they had a splendid opportunity to demonstrate to him that they were worthy of his trust even if he had considered them unworthy. But they missed the opportunity. They did not do anything that would show that they had any anxiety for his personal safety.
The reason for the Muslim veneration of this particular site: Qu’ran links the Prophet Muhammad with Jerusalem and the Temple Mount. The 17th Sura, entitled 'The Night Journey', relates that Muhammad was carried by night ' from the sacred temple to the temple that is most remote, whose precinct we have blessed, that we might show him our signs...' Muslim belief identifies the two temples as being in Mecca and Jerusalem. According to tradition, Muhammad's mystic night journey was in the company of the Archangel Gabriel, and they rode on a winged steed called El Burak (meaning `lightning'), which according to Islamic Hadith tradition was a winged, horse-like creature that was "smaller than a mule, but larger than a donkey." Stopping briefly at Mt. Sinai and Bethlehem, they finally alighted at Temple Mount in Jerusalem, and there encountered Abraham, Moses, Jesus and other prophets, whom Muhammad led in prayers. Gabriel then escorted Muhammad to the pinnacle of the rock, which the Arabs call as-Sakhra , where a ladder of golden light materialized. On this glittering shaft, Muhammad ascended through the 7 heavens into the presence of Allah, from whom he received instructions for himself and his followers. Following his divine meeting, Muhammad was flown back to Mecca by Gabriel and the winged horse, arriving there before dawn. At this hallowed site, known in Arabic as Haram al Sharif , the 9th Caliph, Abd al-Malik, built the great Dome of the Rock between 687 and 691. Often incorrectly called the Mosque of Umar, the Dome of the Rock, known in Arabic as Qubbat As-Sakhrah , is not a mosque for public worship but rather a mashhad , a shrine for pilgrims. Adjacent to the Dome is the Al-Aqsa Mosque wherein Muslims make their prayers.
Strong words against Jews. Taken literally and out of context and applied today as eternal truth
Larabranga Mosque, 13C Ghana Aceh mosque, indonesia
Perfect, supercedes other books. Islam not new religion. It it the original religion. Same preached by Abraham etc. Message must not be corrupted as others were so keep in Arabic. No variant readings. Noble Qur’an - quaiity of Arabic beyond caompare. So beautiful moved to tears Makkan surahs shorter. Focus Tawid. Reject idols embrace faith. Longer in Medina deal with ordering life and community Understand revelation in context given. Each given in response to concrete circumstances Eternal Qur’an Reciting is a spiritual experience. Rhythm of words vibrates whole body Qur’an is a miracle
How to create a community - ummah Need a way of life that all share - 5 pillars Need to base it on something - Qur’an
Don;;t do each time unless slept or toilet. Not feet each time if socks on. Full bath if had sex
Used to face jerusalem
3 days. Revisit mina and stoning
Spain invaded in 711. Muslim expansion into Europe halted in 732 at the Battle of Tours by Charles Martel Huge expansion in very short time. Pressure on Europe from east and west. Jihad for 1000 years until temporary stop after defeat at gates of Vienna in 1683 Muslim sharia law has concept of waqf – any land conquered by Muslims has been consecrated as belonging to all future generations of Muslims until day of resurrection and can never be relinquished.
Reaction against Arab domination. Appealed to non Arab Muslim converts. Rule by Persian bureaucracy replaced Arab aristocracy. Weakened by decentralising power.
Fatimid caliphs were Ismailis opposed by Sunnis in Baghdad. Al-Hakim bi-Amr was regarded as mad – (totally in MHO) His followers thought he was the incarnation of God. After he disappeared proclaimed founder of Druze religion The Fatimids, however, were the heads of a rival religious movement—the Isma'ili sect of the Shi'i branch—and dedicated to the overthrow of the existing religious and political order in all Islam. Unlike their predecessors, they refused to offer even nominal recognition to the 'Abbasid caliphs, whom they rejected as usurpers. They themselves—as Isma'ili imam s (spiritual leaders), descendants of the Prophet through his daughter Fatimah and his kinsman 'Ali—were, in the eyes of their followers, the rightful caliphs, both by descent and by divine choice the custodians of the true faith and the legitimate heads of the universal Islamic state and community.
Ottoman expansion into Europe for 300 years. 1683 Ottomans besieged Vienna for 2 nd time – a long term target for conquest. Many countries answered Pope’s call to defend Christian Europe. Holy League led by King Sobieski of Poland defeated Ottomans. (French didn’t help but attacked the Germans from the rear)
The Arabic numerals are the ten digits (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9). They are descended from the Hindu-Arabic numeral system developed by Indian mathematicians, by which a sequence of digits such as "975" is read as a whole number. The Indian numerals were adopted by the Persian mathematicians in India, and passed on to the Arabs further west. The numerals were modified in shape as they were passed along, and developed their European shapes by the time they reached North Africa. From there they were transmitted to Europe in the Middle Ages. The use of Arabic numerals spread around the world through European trade, books and colonialism. Today they are the most common symbolic representation of numbers in the world. The reason that they are more commonly known as "Arabic numerals" in Europe and the Americas is that they were introduced to Europe in the tenth century from Arabs of North Africa. Arabs, on the other hand, call the system "Hindu numerals",[2][3] referring to their origin in India. The legacy of Muslim chemists includes the discovery of alcohol, nitric and sulphuric acids, silver nitrate and potassium, the determination of the weight of many bodies, the mastery of techniques of sublimation, crystallization and distillation. Muslim chemistry also took many industrial uses including: tinctures and their applications in tanning and textiles; distillation of plants, of flowers, the making of perfumes and therapeutic pharmacy.Translated into Latin 12C Physics in medieval Islam included experimental physics, mathematical physics and theoretical physics. The fields of physics that were studied by Muslim scientists during this time also included optics and magnetism (which are both now part of electromagnetism), mechanics (including statics, dynamics, kinematics and motion), and astrophysics (see Islamic astronomy). These studies flourished in the Islamic world during the Islamic Golden Age, variously dated from the 8th century to the 16th century.